Big hitting from Dalrymple steals Flintoff’s thunder

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IF THE scriptwriters had had their way, this would have been Andrew Flintoff’s triumphant return to competitive cricket after a three-month absence. Instead, another young all-rounder of whom more should be heard, Jamie Dalrymple, helped to win this game against the odds with the sort of clean, powerful striking more normally associated with Flintoff.

Well though Middlesex bowled to dismiss Lancashire for 141, that their attack had anything to work with was down almost entirely to a superb innings from Dalrymple, whose 81 off 82 balls was